Posts by Dan Morrill

East of West by Image Comics
Story by Jonathan Hickman
Art by Nick Dragotta
Colors by Frabk Martin
Letters by Rus Wooton
Cover by Nick Dragotta
Published by Image Comics
In an alternative America, the seven nations squabble amongst themselves for what is left of the country after another Civil War. Bring on the four horsemen of the apocalypse [...]

Honey West Murder on Mars
Written by Elaine Lee
Art by Ronn Sutton
Cover by Malcom McClinton
Printed by Moonstone
Audio Title by the Audio Comics Company
If you love noir and B-movies – then this is the comic book series you want to pick up. It is a little old, but new for people who love Honey West, but haven’t been able to find some of the [...]

Failed Oasis Web Comic
Written by Joey Donaldson and Patibut Preeyawondsakul
Find at http://www.failedoasis.com
This is a brand new comic book web comic that came out on September first 2013. I just trotted on over there to go take a look and see what it is about. It is short, they have just gotten started, but it looks interesting, not a lot [...]

Print on Demand Card Games
We all know the gaming industry is tough, if not impossible to do anything with, but then sometimes you just need to get all creative and expressive. As you know we went to PAX for the first time, and in some of the conversations around that we were kind of surprised by a couple of things.
1. Card Games are still ho [...]

PAX Prime 2013 Show Floor
This is all about the video games, card games, and other games that we saw at Pax Prime 2013 this year. So this is part 2 of the general article, because we really wanted to talk about cosplay then talk about games. Guess you know where our priorities are. We were sponsored into the show by NVIDA because we got stuck [...]

PAX Prime 2013 Cosplay Pictures
So we were fortunate enough to get sponsored into PAX for the first time, because it was impossible to purchase tickets unfortunately. After spending the better part of the day in the waiting room for tickets, and then not getting anything was really disappointing. But on the happy side, we were able to find so [...]

You really should not troll Cosplayers we take pictures of
We here at Comics Forge go to a lot of conventions, we really do a lot of public service work almost by taking pictures, posting them online, and letting the subjects of those Cosplay pictures do whatever they want to do with them. For some Cosplayers this is the only record of their [...]

Amazon VS Overstock dot com pricing war hits graphic novels
Sometimes companies decide to compete in ways that work for the comic book market. Over the last couple of weeks Amazon.com and Overstock.com have been in a take no prisoners pricing war for general books that has now extended on to graphic novels. The good part is that regardless if [...]

Unit 44 a Science Fiction Humor Comic Book Kickstarter Project
Project by Wes Locher and Eduardo Jimenez
Kickstarter Project Link
This is one of those comic book ideas you want to see dragged out as a very long very funny series. The premise is that Unit 44 is the story of Area 51 employees, Agent Gibson and Agent Hatch, who forget to pay the [...]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Written by Kevin Eastman and Ton Waltz
Art by Dan Duncan
Published by IDW
I know they came out about a year ago, but I wanted to see where this series was going to go. I was and am a huge fan of the turtles from the 1980’s through Malibu’s series and then on to everything else I could find on the subje [...]

Grimm Fairy Tales Annual 2013 Unleashed Number 3C Limited Edition Comics Forge
Written by Patrick Shand
Art by Francesco Di Pastena
Cover by Pasquale Qualano
Printed by Zenescope
Comics Forge Edition – hey we sponsored a comic book and finally have it up on line. You can purchase it on Amazon right here or over on Ebay right here depending on [...]

Red Sonja Number 1
Written By Gail Simone
Art by Walter Geovani
Published by Dynamite
Ok, usually anything written by Gail Simone is going to make me happy, and this one did not disappoint. If you have an important woman in comics, Gail is right up there as either the number 1 or number 2 most amazing voice in comics, period. Ok all you troll [...]

Miles from Home by Ho Che Anderson
Written and Drawn by Ho Che Anderson
Published by Fantagraphics Books
Ho Che Anderson comes out with another brilliant noir drama comic book for all of us to dig and read. This is a review of the digital version of the comic book, it looks like Fantagraphics is getting deep into the digital era, and releasin [...]

English: A pile of pillows. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Company that sold controversial Cosplay body pillows bows out
This is a win for the Anime Cosplay community, but 2 image solutions has backed down and decided that they will no longer carry any products based on the photography that they have done in the past at shows. So this is a win for [...]

Cosplay does not Equal Consent things to know as the Cosplay community reacts to a vendor selling body pillows of live Cosplayers at AnimeNext.
Ok, this is one of those things I would never have thought of doing with any of the pictures that I take at Anime, Comic, and Steam Conventions around the USA. Frankly, I would never have thought of p [...]

Crypticon Seattle 2013 Follow-up
This is when things get weird, you end up in back to back conventions with no time to write or post because you are going from one end of the country to the other. Crypticon Seattle recently had their best show ever. I don’t know what they changed because it all looks like back end changes, and there was a fai [...]

Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con 2013 Cosplay Contest Photos
What a wild and crazy place to go for a comic book convention. I seriously had a good time, if the security guards would have gotten off my butt about taking pictures in the hallway and photo bombing me right and left. The good folks at Wizard World Philly let me ride side saddle [...]